Crime

EFCC Detains Emefiele after Release by DSS

Web News 27 October 2023 283 0

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, is currently being detained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Emefiele, who is currently being interrogated at the National Headquarters of the anti-graft agency, Jabi, Abuja, was picked up by EFCC Continue Reading

Judiciary

DSS Detention : Bawa Heads to Court

Web News 26 October 2023 340 0

The embattled former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has sued the Department of State Services, DSS, for his continued detention without trial since June 14, 2023. In the suit filed at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court for the Enforcement of Fundamental Rights, brought by one Barrister […]Continue Reading

Security

DSS Frees Former EFCC Chairman, Bawa

Web News 26 October 2023 344 0

Abdulrasheed Bawa, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been released after spending over 3months in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). The DSS, through its Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Peter Afunaya, announced Bawa’s release late on Wednesday. Bawa’s arrest came immediately after Continue Reading

Crime

Security Operatives Begin Search for Corps Member Abducted in Zamfara

Web News 24 August 2023 314 0

The National Youth Service Corps has said its Director General, Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed is working with the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Services, and the military brigade to secure the release of eight corps members kidnapped in Zamfara State on Saturday. The NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, made the […]Continue Reading

Security

Security Alert: DSS Warns of Imminent Attack on Abuja-Kaduna Train

Web News 17 August 2023 463 0

The Department of the State Services, DSS, has in a leaked memo to the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, warned against bandits attack along Abuja-Kaduna Train. The secret service in memo titled: Security Alert: ‘Impending Threat By A Coalition Of Banditry Syndicate To Attack Abuja-Kaduna Train Service Along AKTS Corridor’, advised other security agents to deploy […]Continue Reading

Education

Protest in Osun Poly over School Closure

Web News 10 August 2023 350 0

By Adenitan Akinola Some students of the Osun State Polythecnic Iree, Thursday afternoon stormed the state Secretariat Abere in protest of the closure of their school. The Students numbering about one hundred moved from Olaiya flyover through OgoOluwa to the State secretariat singing solidarity songs. At the State Secretariat, an attempt to force their way […]Continue Reading

News

Court tells DSS to Release or Charge Emiefele within 7 Days

Web News 13 July 2023 396 0

A high court of the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday issued a one-week ultimatum to the Department of State Security Service to either charge the detained suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele to Court or release him. According to the report, Justice Hamza Muazu gave the order while delivering a […]Continue Reading

Crime

DSS Quizzes Ex- EFCC Chair, Bawa        

Web News 15 June 2023 1052 0

The suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, is being interrogated by operatives of the Department of State Services over his activities in the anti-graft agency. The Spokesman for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, confirmed the invitation and arrival of Bawa at the secret police for the probe in a […]Continue Reading

Crime

DSS Confirms Emefiele’s Arrest

Web News 10 June 2023 369 0

The Department of State Services, DSS, has finally confirmed that Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN, is in its custody. The official confirmation of the whereabout of Emefiele was contained in a press release by the Public Relations Officer, DSS, Peter Afunanya, PhD fsi. The DSS spokesperson further stated that […]Continue Reading

Crime

Just in: DSS Arrests Emefiele

Web News 10 June 2023 541 0

Suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has been arrested by the Department of State Security Services, DSS.The news of Emefiele arrest was made now on Bayo Onanuga Twitter page @aonanuga1956.According to reports, the DSS apprehended Emefiele, shortly after his suspension by President Bola Tinubu on Friday evening.Following his suspension, Emefiele Continue Reading

Security

APC, PDP Tell DSS to Arrest Interim Government Plotters

Web News 30 March 2023 355 0

The presidential campaign councils of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have challenged the Department of State Services to get tough with plotters of the interim national government. The councils, in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Wednesday in Abuja, said the push for the ING was unconstitutional, adding that the plotters […]Continue Reading

Crime

DSS, Police foil Attempted Assassination of Osun Speaker

Web News 23 February 2023 410 0

Mojisola Oladele The Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Mr.Timothy Owoeye has escaped being assassinated by people suspected to be political thugs. It took the gallantry of the men of the Department of State Services and the Police officers attached to the office of the Speaker that repelled the assailants, who arrived at the premises […]Continue Reading

Security

EFCC Releases Doyin Okupe

Web News 12 January 2023 427 0

The former Director-General (DG) of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Doyin Okupe, said he has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos. One of Okupe’s lawyers, Tolu Babaleye who spoke to newsmen on the subject matter, on Thursday, said the DSS asked him to provide court processes where […]Continue Reading

Judiciary

Court Stops Arrest of Emefiele for Alleged Terrorism

Web News 20 December 2022 426 0

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has declined an application by the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest and detain the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele. Justice Tsoho, while declining the motion ex-parte filed by an applicant in the absence of the respondent, […]Continue Reading

Security

Alleged Withdrawal: It is Police, DSS Affair- Adeleke Spokesperson

Web News 19 December 2022 369 0

The Osun State Government says the alleged withdrawal of security personnel from Governor Ademola Adeleke has nothing to do with the Governor according to some reports. A statement by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed clarify that the issue is a minor disagreement between officers of the Department of State Service and the […]Continue Reading

Security

DSS Seeks Cooperation over New Security Alert

Web News 24 October 2022 464 0

The Department of State Services (DSS) has called for calm as it works with other law enforcement agencies and stakeholders to maintain peace and order in and beyond Abuja. On Sunday, the United States and Britain issued a travel advisory of a possible terrorist attack in Abuja, targeting government buildings, places of worship and schools, […]Continue Reading

Crime

DSS Gets Permission to Extend Tukur Mamu’s Detention

Web News 13 September 2022 333 0

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted a prayer by the Department of State Services, DSS, to detain the former terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days. Justice Nkeonye Maha, in a short ruling on the ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji, granted the motion as prayed. The security […]Continue Reading

Crime

DSS Raids Tukur Mamu’s Kaduna Residence

Web News 8 September 2022 389 0

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS have raided the Kaduna residence of the arrested terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu.   Mamu, who is the lead negotiator between terrorists and passengers kidnapped from a Kaduna-bound train in March, was arrested in Egypt on September 6, 2022.  In a statement, DSS Spokesman, Peter Afunanya, Continue Reading

Crime

Owo Church Attack: Defence Hqr Confirms Arrest of Additional Two suspected Attackers

Web News 11 August 2022 412 0

The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said two additional suspected terrorists linked with the Owo attack have been arrested. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, had during a meeting with media executives and editors on Tuesday announced the arrest of some suspected terrorists including the mastermind of Owo attack. In a statement on Thursday, […]Continue Reading

Crime

Owo Church Attack: CDS, Akeredolu Confirm Suspect’s Arrest

Web News 9 August 2022 417 0

Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has disclosed that some of the suspected terrorists linked to the attack on Saint Francis Catholic Church, Owo, two months ago, have been arrested. Irabor made the disclosure during a parley with executives and editors of media organisations in Nigeria, on Tuesday. He said the attackers were apprehended […]Continue Reading

News

DSS Warns Applicants against Fraudsters

Web News 29 April 2022 412 0

The Department of State Services has urged Nigerians to be wary of fraudsters, saying the service was currently not recruiting. The DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, in a statement on Friday, stated that the service does not recruit online, nor does it sell job application forms or demand money from job seekers before recruiting. The statement […]Continue Reading

Security

We remain committed to ensuring security – Makinde

Web News 21 April 2022 470 0

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has expressed the commitment of his administration to keep the state safe and secured. He stated this while receiving the Association of Retired Officers of the Department of State Services of Nigeria (Oyo State Chapter), led by its Chairman, Alhaji Lateef Akinola. Governor Makinde said he would continue to […]Continue Reading

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Pandemonium in Osogbo, as Minister’s Security Aides Fire Sporadic Gunshots

Web News 15 February 2022 517 0

There was pandemonium in Osogbo,the Osun State Capital as sudden sporadic gunshots fired by security men attached to the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola drove residents of the city into panic. The shooting which happened about seven o’clock on Monday evening in the old garage area of the town, made residents,shopowners and passerby to […]Continue Reading

Judiciary

Court moves Nnamdi Kanu’s fundamental rights suit to Feb. 28

Web News 7 February 2022 445 0

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has adjourned until the 28th of this month, to hear a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu against the Department of State Services, its Director-General and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice. Kanu […]Continue Reading

News Yoruba

Àjọ Ọ̀tẹlẹ̀múyẹ́ Rọ Àwọn Ọmọ Ilẹ̀yí Láti Wà Ní Kíkẹ́ Bí Ìbọn Lórí Gbọnmọgbọnmọ Ìwà Ọ̀daràn

Web News 15 December 2021 640 0

Àjọ ọ̀tẹlẹ̀múyẹ́ DSS, ti sọpé ó seese kí ìwà ìjínigbé, ìsekúpani àti ìdigunjalè pọ̀si lásìkò pọ̀pọ̀sìnsìn ọdún tawàyí. Agbẹnusọ àjọ ọ̀hún, ọ̀mọ̀wé Peter Afunanya tó sèkìlọ̀ náà níbi ìpàdé oníròyìn nílu Abuja, wá rọ àwọn ọmọ ilẹ̀ Nàijírìa láti joyè ojú lalákaàn fi sọ́rí ní gbogbo ìgbà. Ọmọwe Afunanya kò sài rọ àwọn ọmọ ilé […]Continue Reading